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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

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